Pages

Search This Blog

Follow me here

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Turkish Meat Pide | Turkish Pizza

As the name suggests, this is a Turkish specialty. Pide is actually 'Pizza' in Turkish accent probably.

What makes this Pide different from Pizza is, that you will not find the usual tomato sauce or any of the Italian flavors. So this indicates that turkish food is a blend or may be we can say a 'fusion' of European and Middle Eastern Cuisine.

Pide comes under the category of 'Mezze' which means an appetizer. It is very easy to make this dish if you have a mastery over the magical dough. I call it magical because of its versatile nature, as you can use the dough to make a pita bread, or a pizza base and of course the 'pide' pronounced as 'pea-day'.

Serving
Size: 4 to 5 person

Ingredients
for the dough:

3 cup of all-purpose flour (Maida)

1 cup warm milk

1 tbsp. dry yeast

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1 egg

3 tbsp. vegetable oil

Ingredients
for the topping:

500 grams of beef mince

1 medium onion chopped

2 cloves of garlic chopped

½ tsp cumin powder

¼ tsp black pepper powder

2 tbsp. lemon juice

Salt to taste

1 tomato chopped

½ cup coriander leaves chopped

2 tbsp. mint leaves chopped

1 cup mozzarella cheese

1 egg whisked

3 tbsp. cooking oil

Method:

In a bowl, mix
together warm milk, yeast, egg, sugar, salt and oil. Mix everything together
till well combined. Add flour little by little to make a soft dough. You may
need ¼ cup more or less of flour while kneading the dough.

Keep the dough covered
in a warm place to rise and double in size.

To make the topping: Heat oil in a pan and
fry garlic and onion till soft. Then add mince, cumin powder, black pepper
powder, lemon juice and salt. Cook till mince is fully done. Set aside and
cool.

I am craving this so much now... I totally loved the Pide and used to have it ever so often as long as I was in Dubai.. This post is making me miss Dubai so so much.. But I am so glad that the missing part will be decreased when I try this wonderful recipe of urs!! Thanks for sharing